The See America Project has only made stops in New York, San Francisco, and Bahrain, and this summer, both Tomato Head locations will host the exhibit during June and July.

It’s a crowd-sourced project from Creative Action Network and National Parks Conservation Association inspired by the See America posters from the New Deal era, which have been re-imagined for the 21st Century. Over 600 posters were submitted and a selection of them is currently on display in Market Square until July 6. The exhibit will then move to our location in the Gallery Shopping Center located at 7240 Kingston Pike until August 3. By clicking on the image below, you can read more about the project in the latest issue of Metro Pulse.

Stop by Market Square to learn how you can win this framed poster from Tennessee artist Matt Brass.

Tell your friends we’re accepting submissions for our 2014 art exhibition schedule. The selected artists will have a monthly show at each Tomato Head location, including a First Friday one evening in Market Square. Labeled CDs are requested by October 18th, 2013. Please include a brief bio, artist statement and sizes for each piece of work submitted. Artists retain proceeds from all sales.

Artists may submit a CD or email of 5-10 images of wall-mountable work to:

You might have noticed the new artwork hanging in our Market Square store. Local artist Sloane Baker Tillman is donating 20% of her sales from now until May 5 to HABIT (Human Animal Bonding in Tennessee). UT College of Veterinary Medicine sponsors this animal-assisted therapy program where pets visit nursing homes, after school programs and mental health centers in our area.

Her paintings are on display downtown until April 6, and then they will move to The Gallery Shopping from April 7 to May 5. Help make a difference in our community by purchasing one of her paintings.

Before talking about the new artwork that’s up at both locations, we would like to give a huge thank you to Bethann DeGrow who organizes our monthly exhibits of local and regional artists. Grazie mille!

This month at the Market Square store, you’ll find acrylic and watercolor paintings from Knoxville resident Dawn Hawkins. Dawn’s work is recognizable from previous shows at Gallery 133 and Gallery Nuance, and the current show at The Tomato Head Market Square lasts from now until March 1.

The photography from Leigh Cooper Creative has moved to The Gallery Shopping Center and will be on display for the remainder of February.

This month at The Tomato Head on Market Square we’re featuring one of the co-founders of 17th Street Studios. Beth Meadows is presenting work from three different series “that all fall under an intrigue with modern female fashion, not only the garments but the industry as well.” The first is a series of paintings of swimming pools, the second consists of pieces of stretched fabric, and the third are drawings of magazine photographs on old windows using paint pens. If you can’t make it downtown, her work will be at the new Tomato Head location in the Gallery Shopping Center from January 6 to February 3. For more info, please visit http://www.withbearhands.com/2012/11/new-work-at-tomato-head.html

You’ve got to check out the photos at our Market Square store by Dennis Sabo. Printed on aluminum and called Metal Prints, the images are infused into the surface making them scratch-resistant, weather-proof and exceptionally vibrant. Dennis is an internationally award winning photographer whose clients have included Canon, Hilton Hotels, NASA, NBC, NOVA, Ocean Conservancy, and Shedd Aquarium-Chicago, with additional examples of his photography appearing in Best Dives of the Caribbean, Blue Planet, Forbes, Living Southern Style, USAF Museum, and Reef Horizons.

His art has been included in gallery exhibitions at the Blowing Rocks Preserve-Hobe Sound, FL., Arts in the Airport Spring 2011 Exhibition-Knoxville, the National Juried Exhibition- Knoxville, Red Line Gallery-Farragut, TN, and the Dogwood Regional Fine Art Exhibition, Knoxville.

His work will be on display in our Market Square location from October 6 to November 2.

Fame, riches and maybe a short blurb in the Metro Pulse calendar section await you. The Tomato Head is accepting submissions for its 2013 exhibit schedule. Artists may submit 5-10 images of wall-mountable work either burned to a CD and mailed to Tomato Head Exhibits Committee c/o Bethann DeGrow, 1710 Jefferson Avenue, Knoxville, TN, 37917, or sent electronically to bethann@degrow.com.

Submissions are requested by October 26, 2012. Please include a brief bio, artist statement and size of works. For more information, please contact Bethann DeGrow, 546-6852 or bethann@degrow.com.

We’ve got some amazing artwork at the Market Square location until October 5. Ruth Allen, an artist from Athens, Georgia, is showing her most recent paintings. These could definitely find a place alongside an Edward Gorey illustration. However, as with most descriptions of art, this fails to completely capture the essence of the paintings, and the work is best experienced in person.